Call for Submissions: Sawti Poetry Prize (Deadline: 10 August)

Sawti Poetry Prize | Tuzo Ya Ushairi Ya Sawti

The project organisers welcome submissions in the following languages; English, Arabic, and Kiswahili. This prize is a contribution towards efforts to engage with local and diasporic East African writers. To participate, poets are asked to respond to the following brief:

‘Poetry as Preservation’ – Exploring poems that seek to identify, rework and archive narratives of preserving a life, a language, a memory, a history or a practice.

The prize is open to poets born or are a national of the following East African countries (this also extends to poets whose parents are born or are a national of these countries):

The submission is for 3 poems for any (language) section of the prize. These may have been published before, though the prize is not open to poets who have published a full-length poetry collection (chapbooks not included).